Sponsored by CREO & the Notre Dame Program for Interdisciplinary Research, Dr. Sean Reardon presented "Education, Opportunity, & Inequality in America" on Friday, September 21, 2018

Sponsored by CREO and the Notre Dame Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research, Dr. Sean Reardon of Stanford University presented "Education, Opportunity, and Inequality in America" on Friday, September 21, 2018. 

Sean Reardon is the endowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and is Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology at Stanford University. His research focuses on the causes, patterns, trends, and consequences of social and educational inequality, the effects of educational policy on educational and social inequality, and applied statistical methods for educational research. Reardon is the developer of the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA). Based on 300 million standardized test scores, SEDA provides measures of educational opportunity, average test score performance, academic achievement gaps, and other information for every public school district in the US.

Professor Reardon received his doctorate in education in 1997 from Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a recipient of the William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award, the National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship, and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.

ND PIER Colloquium - 09.21.2018 - Sean Reardon from IEI at ND on Vimeo.